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Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Sometime games we play says who we are and how we think. I personally think Pokemon is a wonderful game to socialize but was not the other online game help to socialize online? Pokemon is going ground.

Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has announced school-aged children will be able to do all their learning online. This will allow any school, tertiary provider or approved industry to apply to be a "Community of online learning".

This could mean that once again, there will need to be a stay at home parent.

Friday, 12 August 2016

Olympics 2016 is in progress and almost everyone likes to share their feelings towards it. However, the Olympic authority does not allow some people to send post on social networking with Olympics hashtag, otherwise they will be in trouble.

Microsoft's Windows 10 will be connecting with a wide range of smart home and IoT devices near in the future, and that goal has taken a big step forward thanks to a recent agreement between standards bodies the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and the Thread Group.

This article is about the internet statistics for New Zealand last year. It also shows the statistics regarding UFB being installed to house holds and businesses in New Zealand - and that we've hit 100,000 Fibre installations.

Monday, 8 August 2016

New Zealand's best chance of cashing in on the 'Internet Of Things' could come in the creation of software and design. Spark, communications provider, is turning its focus towards the internet of things (IoT). This will create new markets in the economy and will touch every New Zealander. Here is the link below about this emergence of IoT in New Zealand market.

Sunday, 7 August 2016

New Zealand's best chance of cashing in on the 'Internet Of Things' could come in the creation of software and design. Spark, communications provider, is turning its focus towards the internet of things (IoT). This will create new markets in the economy and will touch every New Zealander. Here is the link below about this emergence of IoT in New Zealand market.

Thursday, 4 August 2016

Are you a enthusiast Pokemon Go? BBC (2016) reported there has a taxi company in Manchester providing ride service for hunter of Pokemon Go. It is interesting that nowadays people can make business based on VR games.

Friday, 18 March 2016

A consistent argument the NSA and its defenders have offered for the agency's behavior since 9/11 is that its mass surveillance and warrantless wiretapping programs are required to fight terrorism. One of the persistent fears of privacy advocates has been that these programs will be expanded into domains with absolutely no relation to terrorism. Now, the Obama administration has drafted rules that will allow the FBI and other agencies full access to the raw data that the NSA collects without any safeguards or privacy protections.

A new plan to fight ISIS: turning big data on social media #vmvwiki ps

President Obama's new anti-ISIS messaging czar Michael Lumpkin announced the Center for Global Engagement this week, formed by Executive Order. The new government body is aimed at modifying the conversation around terrorism, extremism, and the West's overall profile. The initiative is distinct from past projects because it is aimed not at countering ISIS messages with US government ones, but at amplifying genuine, moderate messages throughout the Islamic cyber-world. Lumpkin told the Daily Beast that he sees this as a necessary evolution in the face of terrorist info-tech: "You need a network to defeat a network, so we're going to take a network approach to our messaging."

It's not just Apple: Sources claim government goes after source code on a regular basis #vmvwiki ps

The government's most recent filing in the ongoing San Bernardino iPhone case was vitriolic in the extreme and contained a potent threat. In it, the Department of Justice noted that it could've compelled Apple to release its iOS source code and electronic signature, but that it had avoided doing this because it felt other solutions would be "more palatable" to Apple.